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"The license price is one of the cheapest in the market."
"The biggest benefit was that it allowed us to provide SAN services on a limited hardware budget."
"The available GUI is excellent for monitoring and operating the system in an easy and direct way."
"High Availability is the best feature of product."
"StarWind SANs come with outstanding support."
"The backup is readily available for use, and the restoration process is easy."
"We like their high availability. It reduces the downtime for our entire organization's environment."
"It's quite easy to install."
"The performance and small footprint of this solution are its most valuable features. I am able to obtain and use more than 90 percent of the physical hardware capacity."
"It supports the latest technology of NVMe SSD, which is PCIe-based SSD. It has a very good IOPS performance as compared to vSAN. For the same system, I get 1,000 IOPS with vSAN, and with Sunlight, I am able to get almost 10,000 IOPS. In terms of features, it has almost all the features, such as HA and centralized dashboards. It can be managed centrally, and the visibility of the system is very good. They also have very good technical support and customer or partner training."
"VMware vSAN has greatly reduced refresh spending."
"The most valuable features are its price point and that you can use existing storage; no specific storage requirements are needed."
"It is more stable now than it was before. It's not like it was in the first year. Now it is stable, and we trust it more."
"The most valuable feature of VMware vSAN is you do not have to use additional hardware for storage. The operation of VMware vSAN does not take a lot of effort. If you have VMware technology on your site, then it's easy for the operational support of the system."
"Since the storage space is local to the hosts, it reduces the overall response time and improves the performance."
"vSAN is scalable for us. If any additional capacity needs to be included, we just add to the host and configure the vSAN cluster."
"The scalability of the solution is most valuable."
"The solution's unified administration is its most valuable aspect."
"The main issue we ran into was the documentation. We attempted to set up the product in our test environment by ourselves and ran into several areas of the documentation that were unclear to us."
"They need to invest more in the support documents for real issues happening when integrating the solution with the hypervisor."
"With data verification, I would like to know how does the solution perform validation of data being synced between two VSANs."
"Diagnostics information or alerts on the state of systems could also be implemented to give more visibility."
"I want to suggest that the complexity of the startup and shutdown procedure needs to be reduced."
"We have, in rare cases, received conflicting guidance between different support folks within StarWind."
"The cluster configuration is time-consuming and tedious."
"Performance when in storage-separate configuration needs to be improved."
"Its reporting and dashboards need to be improved. It currently has very basic reporting options. It should also be made easier to deploy on Unix operating systems. It is easy to deploy on Windows and Linux, but it is currently not easy to deploy on Unix."
"My recommendation would be to add this technology to Azure, Microsoft Azure so that we can bring it to the market, or deploy it on public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Google. It is currently only available on Amazon's public cloud."
"What I would like to see, for the really small customers, is the ability to have two nodes."
"I would like to see the availability of more template based VMware systems. Combined with the ability to check and measure multiple and converging data segments. Another issue I've seen is that the tool seems to be slow when first starting up."
"There is a room for improvement on the latest version of compatibility with the VMware product, especially for vSAN and with other vendors on their motherboards and driver configurations."
"I would rate the stability a seven out of ten."
"The interface is a little complicated, it could be simplified with more graphical gadgets. We have many servers, and the built-in functions, such as rate configuration, are a bit complex."
"We do see weird things crop up every now and again. It will say that a drive gets kicked off even though it's fine, and we have to re-add it."
"The usability is pretty good but it could use a little tweaking on the UI, with a clearer definition of exactly what some of the things do."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
Sunlight is ranked 29th in HCI with 2 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 3rd in HCI with 226 reviews. Sunlight is rated 8.0, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sunlight writes "Performs well, effective, and has responsive remote technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Sunlight is most compared with , whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and Pure Storage FlashArray.
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